This week marks a rare achievement for Hollywood; instead of spending two hours on a three-hundred page book, they're going to turn it into a nearly nine-hour movie trilogy, with The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug taking up theaters this week.

[Note: I wrote this while I was at The Gathering of the Juggalos over the weekend, but I couldn't post it until now, because internet access was spotty at the Gathering, where we stayed the entire time.

You might not remember it, and I only barely did, but a while back, the trailer hit for an indie-ish sci-fi film called Black Rock, directed by Katie Aselton of The League and co-written by Mark Duplass.